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The Good And Bad Of Hardware-Software Appliances
Interest in appliances is growing, driven by big vendors including Oracle and IBM.
Software-plus-hardware appliances have been around for a long time, but the market for them is changing fast.
On the upside, integrated hardware-software machines are making inroads into more complex realms of data analytics, as evidenced by Oracle's successful Exadata database appliance and IBM's $1.7 billion bid for data appliance maker Netezza. On the downside, appliances delivering plug-and-play, focused capabilities, from spam filtering to WAN optimization, are being replaced in some cases by software as a service.
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